Obama to Palin: 'Don't Mock the Constitution'

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[Chet 99]

Obama to Palin: 'Don't Mock the Constitution'

By Peter Slevin

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered an impassioned defense of the Constitution and the rights of terrorism suspects tonight, striking back at one of the biggest applause lines in Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech to the GOP convention.

It was in St. Paul last week that Palin drew raucous cheers when she delivered this put-down of Obama: "Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he's worried that someone won't read them their rights."

Obama had a few problems with that.

[Maelstorm]

You know I keep forgetting he even has one. lol Obama is quickly becoming irrelevant and Joe Biden has just evaporated into dust.

[ovrtaxt]

"We don't always catch the right person," he said. "We may think it's Mohammed the terrorist, but it might be Mohammed the cab driver. You might think it's Barack the bomb-thrower, but it might be Barack the guy running for president."

Or it might be Barack the guy who hangs out with William Ayers the bomb thrower. See, ya never know.

[tomnbeverly]

Because those that Killed 3000 Americans on 911 are entitled to the same rights as the very citizens whose lives they stamped out RIGHT OSAMA.... You are a Terroist loving MUSLIM... may you rot in HELL..

I hope he delivers that as part of his 911 tribute speech and gets BOOED out of NY CITY.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Is Obama running for VP?

Apparently, he’s trying for second place in the POTUS race.

That’s almost the same thing as running for VP... isn’t it?

[Dawn531]

John McCain is a political genius (what did Rush call him...”McGenius.”) He has the Democratic Presidential nominee on the defensive, but not against the Republican Presidential nominee, but against the VP candidate. Doesn’t Obama get the fact that this diminishes his so called “political stature.” Why does it take Hillary, Biden, and Obama to all face off against one woman? It’s getting to be a little absurd, but entertaining.

[Hattie]

Obama and Biden still can’t get over the Republican Convention. They are nuts.

[shiva]

HOLA!

[mass55th]

""And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion..."

Yeah Bambi, it's good not to mock the Constitution.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Is this guy actually a lawyer? You gotta be kidding.
Guess affirmative action is alive and well. /s off

[WillVoteForFood]

So help me out here. Who is the old guard fiberal that Uhbamuh has as a running mate? His name escapes me and I’m thinking they should start one of those “Where’s (insert VP candidate name here)” series of books, as he has become quite invisible of late.

[Brilliant]

“Obama, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for more than a decade, said captured suspects deserve to file writs of habeus corpus.”

[wideawake]

The very issue at hand is whether foreigners who are trying to murder Americans are protected by the US Constitution.

The Constitution nowhere says that they are and up until a few years ago, no American jurist ever suggested that they were.

To claim that Yemenis in Cuba have the same legal rights as American citizens in America is to mock the Constitution.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America DID NOT WRITE the U.S. Constitution for a bunch of Islamofascists killing Americans and trying to destroy OUR country! If Obammie had spent more time in the United States and less time in Indonesia, who would know that. The SCOTUS “mocked” the Constitution when they gave constitutional rights to maggots who have never even been to this country. Stuff it Obammie!!!

[Chet 99]

She’s gotten under his skin, big time.

Big time. This is all about ego. It is positively moronic for him to engage the VP nominee like this.

[Rodm]

The right of terrorists? The rights of terrorists?

OK if they are US Citizens we will give them a fair trial and then shoot them. If they are not US Citizens they don't have constitutional rights.

[philman_36]

Obama to Palin: 'Don't Mock the Constitution'
And this advice from someone who does that very thing almost every time he opens his mouth?
I can't say that I'm shocked 'cause transference was to be expected sometime, somewhere.

[Question_Assumptions]

The US Constitution, Article I, Section 9 (I mistakenly identified this as 8 in a previous reply) states:

The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.

Congress gave President Bush that power in the legislation they passed authorizing him to fight the War on Terror. So it's entirely Constitutional.

The Constitution allows the writ of habeas corpus to be suspended in cases of rebellion or invasion when the public safety requires it. The Founders understood that defending the public safety against foreign enemies and domestic rebels so why doesn't Barack Obama?

[ronnie raygun]

The man is a dumb a## and a danger to us and himself. Obama the global president feels everyone in the world has the same rights as an American citizen. Don’t mock the constitution! coming from a man I doubt knows whats in it. This is a man we want to lead our country?
He will inflict unmeasurable damage if this comes to pass.

[CyberSpartacus]

He is just breath-takingly stupid. These people are not covered under the constitution. The problem is the far left keeps trying to apply the constitution to any breathing person. And there in lies the problem. I love they dont know what to do with her.

Except the UNBORN!

[kcvl]

Don't suggest that it's not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up.

Is Obama actually saying that foreign TERRORISTS have American rights (that our founding fathers set up)?!